Smithers Cookie Policy: Understanding Our Use of Cookies
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At Smithers of Stamford, we use cookies to improve your shopping experience, analyse website traffic, and personalise our content, services, and marketing. You can manage or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time.
For more details on how we handle your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. They help the site remember your actions and preferences so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you return.
Types of Cookies We Use
1. Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for our website to function properly. They enable core features such as secure login, shopping cart functionality, payment processing, and fraud prevention. You cannot opt out of these cookies.
2. Preference Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember your choices — like language settings or your selected location — so we can offer a more personalised experience.
3. Statistics (Analytics) Cookies
These help us understand how visitors interact with our site by collecting anonymous information, such as which pages are visited most often. We use tools like Google Analytics to improve the performance and usability of our website.
4. Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your browsing habits to show relevant adverts on other websites. They may be set by third-party advertising networks like Google Ads, Meta (Facebook), or others.
Learn more about how we use marketing data here.
5. Unclassified Cookies
These are cookies we are currently working to categorise, with the help of their providers.
Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our site are set by trusted third-party services. These third parties may use cookies to track your online behaviour. You can view their privacy policies for more information:
- Google Analytics
- Facebook (Meta)
- YouTube
- Tawk
- klaviyo
Your Consent and Control
You have full control over your cookie preferences:
- Accept all cookies
- Reject non-essential cookies
- Customise which types of cookies you want to allow
- Withdraw your consent at any time via the Revoke Consent option in your account area
Your preferences will be stored for one year unless you clear your browser cookies or revoke consent sooner.